Shakespeare And Girls Studies

Author : Ariane M. Balizet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351372039

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Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies by Ariane M. Balizet Pdf

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is increasingly becoming the domain of the adolescent girl, and engages the interdisciplinary field of Girls’ Studies to analyze adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through chapters on film, television, young adult fiction, and web series aimed at girl readers and audiences, this volume explores the impact of girl cultures and concerns on Shakespeare’s afterlife in popular culture and the classroom. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, and that studying Shakespeare through the lens of contemporary girlhoods can generate new approaches to Renaissance literature as well as popular culture aimed at girls and young people of marginalized genders. Drawing on contemporary cultural discourses ranging from Abstinence-Only Sex Education and Shakespeare in the US Common Core to rape culture and coming out, this book addresses the overlap between Shakespeare’s timeless girl heroines and modern popular cultures that embrace figures like Juliet and Ophelia to understand and validate the experiences of girls. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies theorizes Shakespeare’s past and present cultural authority as part of an intersectional approach to adaptation in popular culture.

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655915

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Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters by Jennifer Higginbotham Pdf

The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137024763

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Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by D. Williams Pdf

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.

Author : James R. Siemon
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644805

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Shakespeare Studies by James R. Siemon Pdf

Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features a forum on the work of Terence Hawkes. In addition there are papers by five young scholars, five new articles, and reviews of ten books.

Author : Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110311

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation by Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Marie M McKenney
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021384372

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Studies of Shakespeare, S Women by Marie M McKenney Pdf

In this insightful study, Marie M. McKenney analyzes the female characters in Shakespeare's plays, exploring their personalities, motivations, and relationships with the male characters. She argues that Shakespeare's women are complex and multifaceted, and sheds new light on the playwright's understanding of gender roles and power dynamics. Originally published in 1925, this book remains a valuable resource for scholars and fans of Shakespeare alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Deborah Uman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350320277

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Liberating Shakespeare by Jennifer Flaherty,Deborah Uman Pdf

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the problems faced by today's young adults. Liberating Shakespeare explores how adaptations of Shakespeare's plays can be used to empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma and resistance. Showcasing a wide variety of approaches to understanding, adapting and teaching Shakespeare, this collection examines the significant number of Shakespeare adaptations targeting adolescent audiences in the past 25 years. It examines a wide variety of creative works made for and by young people that harness the power of Shakespeare to address some of the most pressing questions in contemporary culture – exploring themes of violence, race relations and intersectionality. The contributors to this volume consider whether the representations of characters and situations in YA Shakespeare can function as empowering models for students and how these works might be employed within educational settings. This collection argues that YA Shakespeare represents the diverse concerns of today's youth and should be taken seriously as art that speaks to the complexities of a broken world, offering moments of hope for an uncertain future.

Author : Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009200936

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Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet by Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe.

Author : Michael Marokakis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000617801

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Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults by Michael Marokakis Pdf

Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults offers a comprehensive examination of Shakespearean adaptations written by Australian authors for children and Young Adults. The 20-year period crossing the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries came to represent a diverse and productive era of adapting Shakespeare in Australian literature. As an analysis of Australian and international marketplaces, physical and imaginative spaces and the body as a site of meaning, this book reveals how the texts are ideologically bound to and disseminate Shakespearean cultural capital in contemporary ways. Combining current research in children’s literature and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital deepens the critical awareness of the status of Australian literature while illuminating a corpus of literature underrepresented by the pre-existing concentration on adaptations from other parts of the world. Of particular interest is how these adaptations merge Shakespearean worlds with the spaces inhabited by young people, such as the classroom, the stage, the imagination and the gendered body. The readership of this book would be academics, researchers and students of children’s literature studies and Shakespeare studies, particularly those interested in Shakespearean cultural theory, transnational adaptation and literary appropriation. High school educators and pre-service teachers would also find this book valuable as they look to broaden and strengthen their use of adaptations to engage students in Shakespeare studies.

Author : Matteo Pangallo,Peter Kirwan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000352573

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Shakespeare’s Audiences by Matteo Pangallo,Peter Kirwan Pdf

Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the present, responded to that invitation? In what ways have consumers across different cultural contexts, periods, and platforms engaged with the performance of Shakespeare’s plays? What are some of the different approaches taken by scholars today in thinking about the role of Shakespeare's audiences and their relationship to performance? The chapters in this collection use a variety of methods and approaches to explore the global history of audience experience of Shakespearean performance in theater, film, radio, and digital media. The approaches that these contributors take look at Shakespeare’s audiences through a variety of lenses, including theater history, dramaturgy, film studies, fan studies, popular culture, and performance. Together, they provide both close studies of particular moments in the history of Shakespeare’s audiences and a broader understanding of the various, often complex, connections between and among those audiences across the long history of Shakespearean performance.

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350343214

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Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Pdf

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls' participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl – Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls' dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.

Author : Marie Miller McKenney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Women in literature
ISBN : LCCN:09004558

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Studies of Shakespeare's Women by Marie Miller McKenney Pdf

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000375695

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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire by Jonathan Locke Hart Pdf

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the text and an attention to Shakespeare’s use of signs, verbal and visual, to represent the world in poetry and prose, in dramatic and non-dramatic work as well as some of the contexts before, during and after the Renaissance. Shakespeare’s representation of character and action in poetry and theatre, his interpretation and subsequent interpretations of him are central to the book as seen through these topics: German Shakespeare, a life and no life, aesthetics and ethics, liberty and tyranny, philosophy and poetry, theory and practice, image and text. The book also explores the typology of then and now, local and global.

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137024763

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Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by D. Williams Pdf

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.

Author : Suddhaseel Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000206067

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Shakespeare in the World by Suddhaseel Sen Pdf

Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, operatic, novelistic, and prose adaptations that are still read and performed, in order to argue that, crucial to the transmission and appeal of Shakespeare’s plays were the adaptations they generated in a wide range of media. These adaptations, in turn, made the absorption of the plays into different "national" cultural traditions possible, contributing to the development of "nationalist cosmopolitanisms" in the receiving cultures. Sen challenges the customary reading of Shakespeare reception in terms of "hegemony" and "mimicry," showing instead important parallels in the practices of Shakespeare adaptation in Europe and colonial India. Shakespeare in the World strikes a fine balance between the Bard’s iconicity and his colonial and post-colonial afterlives, and is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies.